From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   Anton Ertl  schrieb:   
   > John Levine  writes:   
   >>I didn't port a lot of code from the 11 to other machines, but my   
   recollection   
   >>is that the widespread assumption in Berkeley Vax code that location zero was   
   >>addressable and contained binary zeros was much more painful to fix than   
   >>size issues.   
   >   
   > Sure, lots of things are more painful to fix, but Thomas Koenig's   
   > claim was that if the 64-bit machines would not run FORTRAN code "as   
   > is", nobody would buy them.   
      
   That is a misrepresentation (not that I'm surprised).   
      
   My argument was that this would remove a sizable enough market share   
   that nobody would risk that.   
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